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February 28, 2017

National Leagues Referee Appointments - Matchweek 9 (2017)

The following match officials have been selected to take control over the matches played in Europe's top leagues in Matchweek 9. Feel free to ...

- ... share appointments with us (writing them as a comment in the manner below)
- ... share appointments from your national leagues other than those listed below with us, specially if you consider the game as significant (e.g. a derby, a top clash or a very important game etc.)
- ... place video clips you regard as useful for educational and discussion purpose
- ... discuss match situations on the games belonging to the respective matchweek
- ... and much more..

Our matchweekly posts can be easily found in the menu (Referee Appointments > National Leagues).
They will appear on Saturdays most likely and then be filled throughout the week.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0I27f_XPw8Very interesting case from last week's Ligue 1 game Angers SCO - SC Bastia.Correct decision, in my opinion to send off the player, after his action against fourth official.My question is: was in this case the substitution already done? Should we consider the player already out? When he hits fourth official's board, he seems to be still on the pitch.This substitution was confirmed and the player sent off, but I think we can discuss about a possible annulment.

Björn Kuipers has the Eredivisie game between AZ Alkmaar and SBV Excelsior on 5 March (Sunday) with regular assistants Sander van Roekel and Erwin E. J. Zeinstra... I think Kuipers will get the Borussia Dortmund v Benfica CL Round of 16 tie on Wednesday and he would really fit in well for this very crucial match!!

Yes indeed, and I was always expecting Napoli v Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund v Benfica to be shared between Çakir and Kuipers!! These two are by some distance the most reliable names for these 2 very, very important clashes and they would deserve it!!

RefereeingWorld reports Kari Seitz has designated this is as the new preselected list for WWC 2019 France. I think we can assume the (twelve) Women's EURO referees will come from the sixteen on the preselection list.

Very (very) soft award from my view, basically a crucial mistake. I think he ran to the left too late and basically had to guess the contact, which from the right could have looked big enough for a foul, and he had to look through a lot of players.

If you read those comments under the video you can find lots of comments by Dinamo fans that are ashamed on what is going one in Croatia for years. When they are asking for regularity in the championship, you can understand what amount of protection Dinamo had and is having in their league. Dinamo is from Zagreb, capital of Croatia, and Rijeka and Hajduk, the greatest Dinamo rivals, are from smaller cities on the seaside, so Football Federation and Mamic are doing everything for Dinamo to be the champions, and that is happening for decades. Everybody knows that, of course, it never was a secret. Dinamo fans had it enough know. This is so obvious, and great disgrace.Somme of the comments:"Enjoy the beauty of Croatian football""Oh, what is this? The man didn't touch him""I would understand it if it was penalty for Cibalia""D I S G R A C E""Haha. You are still wondering? That's Dinamo. Croatian champion for more than 10 years in a row. That's how and in a what way".

What is your view on the 1st given penalty? Clear, or did the attacker seek the contact? Or both? :)

68': the NAP appeal is not enough for me, the attacker would have probably fallen even without a contact or at least tried to provoke it. The contact itself is not careless but accidental for me. The penalty given is justifiable, as Reina played the ball, but in an uncontrolled manner and at the same time carelessly fouled the attacker.

What you think about the ball position (penalty)?LOG say that the ball must be on the penalty mark. I saw many situations when the player's had try to put the ball as much possible forward. My question for discusion - what really mean the words "on the penalty mark"?

Isn't it the same every time? How many times did he already refereed this match? I think it is quite boring to appoint always the same referee for the same game. I mean that Mazic is a great referee and a safe appointment, but isn't it a bit demotivating for the other ones in Serbia?

Jonas Eriksson ruled out of Monaco v Manchester City considering Bo Karlsson is the observer... So who is most likely to be appointed for that clash now??? Daniele Orsato or Deniz Aytekin or somebody else??

No comments about last night's match Real-Las Palmas?! Extraordinary match, but tough one for Borbolan, red card (absolutely deserved - in fact, Bale should get RC immediately because it wasn't tripping, it was kicking an opponent from the back with clear intention), two penalties, both given by the ARs (first correct, second for Real I don't think so, and it came as decisive moment in the game), several doubtful decisions - the last came by giving first corner for Real (second one came after first, after which Real scored 3rd goal).Here you can find some important situations:http://www.flashscore.com/match/4KkqKVw3/#match-summary

I forgot: 1st goal for Real was offside. Not an easy situation though - prior and after that AR1 had several tough but excellent offside decisions, and every time he raised his flag. But, what we are having at the end: all 3 Real goals are... well, doubtful. Or I should say - IMO they all came after referee's mistakes. All 3 (third goal after ghost corner, given by AR2, who also gave penalty for Real few minutes before).

I just posted below... Viktor Kassai is just returning from an injury so a CL clash is highly unlikely in this round... Moreover he isn't out with his regular assistants!! An EL R16 2nd leg clash would be ideal as an warm-up and then CL shall automatically follow!!! He needs to spend some time in the middle after this injury break before he takes charge of an important CL game!! 🙂

Also this is the 1st time in about 3 years or so that Viktor Kassai is not doing the big Hungarian derby... Effect of the thigh injury which he picked up during the winter break!! I wish him an excellent remainder of the season!! 🙂

No. When he was refereed last time Ferencváros game. He had more big decisions. And the Boss of the Ferencváros he criticized him in the media more times and asked the Hungarian FA that Kassai will not referring to Ferencvaros game in the future.

Update : After a long injury break, Viktor Kassai is now fit and will be making a return to the Hungarian league NB1 in this matchweek... He has a game on 4th March but not with his regular assistants Ring and Toth!!! So a R16 CL clash is unlikely... I would expect Kassai to be given an EL R16 2nd leg match as a warm-up at first and maybe then an important CL Quarter Final game... All in all it's an excellent news to hear that Viktor is back from his injury and fully fit now!! 🙂

Why long break? In Hungary had winter break. This is the third round in Hungary in this season. I am not sure that he was injury.When he was last time injured he appointed firsty AAR and later as Referee. But who knows?

Viktor Kassai had picked up a thigh injury during the beginning of the winter break and hence had to stay out of refereeing for about 2 and a half months or so... I don't know what happened last time with appointments after injury but I know that this time he was injured from which he has now recovered and is back in the middle!! If you don't want to believe that's fine as well, no problems!! 🙂

I can confirm that Kevin Friend had an absolutely dreadful performance at Old Trafford tonight... So many KMIs were wrongly adjudged that I've honestly lost count... A massive contender for the worst refereeing performance in PL this season and possibly will win that award as well!! A total off day for Kevin Friend... Rather a nightmare I must say!!

To say that Friend's performance today is the worst, speaks volumes!!! Especially in a season in which the level of officiating in the Premier had been truly dreadful.But to be brutally honest. I am not at all surprised that modern football no longer resembles the beautiful game it once was. Or now at times more closely resembles mixed martial arts or rugby. All this thanks to a combination of poor training, poor instruction, and this current trend in which is become perfectly acceptable for a referee to be overly permissible while trampling the Laws of the Game. Combine all those factors with today's "modern" referee who becomes spineless in his matches by bowing down to the powers that be and their disastrous effect on the beautiful game.